... of vitalist and “Romantic” concepts of bodily functioning organicist models of auditory perception displaced Cartesianism’s machine body. Moreover, the “discovery” of auditory resonance was heavily contingent on the emergence of a new metaphysics of subjectivity and art stressing self-making and self...

... a theoretical physics through which we see how the Cartesian subject, in order to emerge as the subject of the enunciation, must be reduced to “a disposable piece of shit” in the form of the subject of the enunciated. The chapter’s thesis is that this split of the subject is also an intervention in the critique...

... movements in various parts of the world and with European resistance to decolonization. Césaire’s arguments take the form of an intervention into rationalism, which he does by engaging the Cartesian roots of European thought. Discourse on Colonialism serves as a critique of major tenets of modern Western...

... provides us a theoretical physics through which we see how the Cartesian subject, in order to emerge as the subject of the enunciation, must be reduced to “a disposable piece of shit” in the form of the subject of the enunciated. The chapter’s thesis is that this split of the subject is also...

.... The moment coincided with the propagation of decolonization movements in various parts of the world and with European resistance to decolonization. Césaire’s arguments take the form of an intervention into rationalism, which he does by engaging the Cartesian roots of European thought. Discourse...